Bulgakov's Last Decade: The Writer as HeroPublished in 1987, this book was the first full length interpretative study in English of the later writings of the outstanding Soviet novelist and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov (1891 1940). The focus is the 1930s, the period when Bulgakov was writing The Master and Margarita, an extraordinary novel that has had a profound impact in the Soviet Union and which is now generally regarded as his masterpiece. Using material from Soviet archives and